Chapter Two
~Deacon~
The gravel crunches under my feet. I fucking hate Tennessee. That’s bullshit.
I hate everywhere.
It’s five a.m. on a hot, humid day. The atmospheric pressure of a storm rolling in has my lungs burning for clean air and my joints aching for me to slow down.
Press on, Frogman. I push harder.
My days as a Navy SEAL are behind me. After being trained to be part of a team, an integral piece of something greater, there are pieces of my past I can never leave behind. Running clears my mind, though. The physical exertion of pushing harder and harder reminds me I’m alive, and in the end, it’s a daily habit I simply can’t break.
The gray sky opens up, and drops pelt down on my face in rapid succession. Pin prickles hit my skin like shards of metal cutting me.
I relish the pain.
My thighs burn, and my knees are in agony from every pound of my feet on the pavement beneath me. My sweat rolls down in thick beads, mixing with the water and leaving a salty mixture on my skin and lips
Thunder rolls in the air around me and lightning flashes overhead as the salt of my sweat mixes with the water and burns the insides of my eyes. My body reacts by blinking rapidly as I power on.
. I want to wipe my eyes, but I resist, fighting to see clearly.
Isn’t that what we all do? Fight to see things clearly?
My dick gets hard. I get off on the pain. I get off on pushing myself harder and harder, higher and higher. No relief. No rest. Push on.
I hear the rhythm of someone running ahead of me. From the softer sounds of their shoes, it’s a female or a male much lighter than me. At six-foot-eleven and a solid two hundred and sixty pounds, I am muscle, mass, and not fucking afraid of one damn thing.
The thunder booms, the lightning flashes, and I hear the scream of a woman.
Ahead of me, I see the flash of neon pink as I watch her steps stop. Coming up on her, I feel the tension of her anxiety radiating into the space around us.
“You should get inside,” I say to her, my breathing ragged from my run.
She is frozen in place as yet more thunder crashes loudly around us. She shakes her head back and forth wildly, and her braid whips around, smacking her in the face. The park we are running through has a small shelter with a single picnic table off to our right. Taking the fearful pixie by the hand, I guide her to the space to at least get out of the elements.
She trembles as her body gets out of the pelting rain. Instinctively, I rub my hands up and down her arms as I feel her break out in goose bumps.
“The app said this morning would be clear,” she blurts out and then strains her neck back to look up at me. “You’re tall.”
I say nothing. What is there to say? I am tall, and I’m pretty sure the app on my phone didn’t call for rain this morning, either. Regardless, I felt it in the air before I ever made it this far from the dive we have been crashing in.
Rain, wind, sleet, snow, or a fucking tornado, if I don’t get up and run first thing, it’s like I can’t function. My mind goes places it doesn’t need to.
“My name is Constance. You can, um … call me Connie. My friends do,” the tiny woman in my arms says, bringing me out from my dark thoughts.
“Deacon.” I give her nothing more.
“Deacon, huh? Were your parents big on church?” She laughs to herself. I don’t know why she finds my name funny.
“Road name, not my real name. As for church and God, we have an understanding. Not really your business.”
“Broody,” she whispers, taking a step back and looking around me at the storm raging on. “It’s kinda hot.” She twists her hands together nervously, starting to whisper to herself as if I’m not even standing a mere three feet away. “Hot man … all wet. My God, this is like out of one of the books I read. Go for it, Connie. Take a chance. Live a little. It’s not like you haven’t had a one-night stand before.” She smacks herself in the forehead. “You’re an idiot. Just do it.”
Turning my back on her, I make my way to the edge of the covering, ready to take off and finish my run. I don’t like nervous people. I don’t like nervous energy. I need to get the blood pumping hard in my veins again. I need the release of pushing my body to its limits. What I don’t need is batshit crazy, even if it would take the ache out of my balls.
Boom, crack, crash. We hear the thunder clap and then the crack of an old pine tree before we both stand in awe as we watch it fall.
As it crashes onto the roof of the shelter, I feel two small hands reach out to grab me just as she screams in reaction to the pine needles flying everywhere and the branches settling around us, cocooning us in this space.
“Please don’t leave me. When the storm passes, I’ll be okay, but I’ve never liked storms.”
On a sigh, I move to the picnic table and sit on the tabletop, bending my knees to rest my feet on the bench. With my elbows on my knees, I try to let the time pass.
I’m an ass, but I’m not a bona fide dickhead. She’s scared; I won’t leave her. I just won’t give her a ton of attention. This will pass, and then we will both be on our way. Only, then the dark-haired woman comes to stand in front of me.
“What do you do, Deacon?” she asks me as if she’s trying for small talk.
“I don’t do chatter,” I huff out.
I watch her lips tick as if she’s fighting back a smile. She fans herself as if she’s hot, but the rain has cooled the air around us. Then her breathing changes, and I watch the dramatic rise and fall of her pert breasts in her sports bra as she looks at me with a distinct desire.
She bites her lip in an erotic way. “What do you do?”
Oh, honey, do you even realize what you’re starting here?
“I fuck, I fight, and I ride my bike, not necessarily in that order,” I give her honestly.
She taps her finger on her lip as if she’s contemplating something. There is a new confidence to her that has my cock hardening in curiosity, wondering if she will be so full of herself when I’m balls fucking deep.
“Well, we have nothing but time, and I could use a way to burn a few more calories.” She gives me a wink.
“You wanna fuck”—I point at my chest—“me?”
She nods, reaching into her exercise belt to pull out a condom.
Rage fills me at the thought that this is some warped setup. Who runs with a condom unless they have something planned or they are a man with a wallet?
Trust no one outside of your team. It’s the lesson I learned during my time served.
As I stand and then climb down from the bench, Connie never steps back, causing me to rub the length of her body on my way to settling in front of her.
I wrap my hands firmly around her neck.
For a moment, she holds her breath.
I tighten my grip and then lean toward her ear. “Breathe.”
She lets out a loud exhale before I tighten my grip around her throat.
“Who are you?” I growl as my fury builds.
“Connie. Constance Jones.” She reaches up to wrap her tiny hands around my thick wrists, unable to complete the circle from her thumb to her forefinger. “Wh-why?” she stammers.
“Who sent you for me?”
She fights to shake her head. Then something flashes as her pupils dilate. I read it as anger. No, it’s not that. It’s a challenge. She’s turned on. I can tell by the way her chest rises and falls in a rhythmic way that isn’t in fear, but desire. She licks her lips, the fire there.
“Why can a man fuck anyone, but a girl goes after something she likes and it’s a setup?” She tries to break free.
“You wanna fuck?” I ask, releasing her.
“Look, I just got out of a long-term fuck of a mess that was once called a relationship. I’m trying,” she draws out the word, “to move on in a way that is healthy and carries no long-term attachments. I don’t want to know your name, big boy; I just want to know what you feel like inside of me. I want to forget the storm inside my head and the storm around us for, like, five minutes, okay? I thought you could handle that. Maybe I was wrong,” she smarts off, the desire only growing between us.
I was wrong. My paranoia that everyone is against me is getting the best of me. She’s cute enough: tiny, tight body, and definitely warm and wet to sink into. And the fight inside her, the burn to go after something she wants … Well, I can’t deny it’s hot as fuck.
“No attachments? You wanna fuck right here, right now?” I double-check the pulse on the situation.
“I did, but why the freak-out?”
When I press my body to hers, she steps back and back again until her spine hits a post holding up the shelter.
“We fuck. We don’t talk.” It’s the truth, too. I want nothing more from her than a release; she should expect the same. We aren’t here for small talk. She didn’t want to be left alone, so I stayed. She offered, so I’m accepting.
I grunt, reaching down to scoop her up from under her knees. Her arms wrap around my neck as I let her feel my hard cock against her core. Any anger between us dissipates as desire takes over.
Looking down, I see Connie’s nipples poking through the wet fabric of her sports bra. She wiggles her hips, seeking friction as I drop my head to her neck and bite.
“You want this?” I give her one last opportunity to back out.
She twists her back, making her hips pop out and putting us even closer together as she tries to use her thighs to squeeze me to her.
Letting go of her knees, I set her down and take a step back. With my hand down my running shorts, I stroke myself to get harder. The storm rages on around us as the storm builds inside me and between us.
“Take your bottoms off,” I command, and the little woman in front of me doesn’t hesitate to kick off her running shoes and tight-ass spandex shorts. Then she unclips her workout belt, dropping it to the ground then tossing the condom at me.
Ripping the foil with my teeth, I slide my own shorts down enough to free my beast and cover it with the rubber.
Connie bites her lip and, on a hiss, backs up. I stalk forward and scoop her up, wrapping her legs high around my hips as I surge forward with my cock to dive into her tight, wet heat.
She squeals as we fight to fit together. My cock is too wide and long to slide all the way in at once. With every movement, though, I make a little more headway.
With her back to the post, I pound into her at a relentless pace. She moans and claws at me, trying to slow me down.
Bending my head down, I take her breast into my mouth with her bra on and bite down, making sure she feels it through the fabric. Then I trace her chest and collarbone with my tongue. Her taste is a mixture of the salt in her sweat and the clean morning rain. I lap up the moisture as I hit her neck then suck hard at the juncture of her shoulder.
“Mmmm,” she moans, and I can’t help smiling against her neck. She likes a pinch of pain, and I like that when I’m fucking.
She tightens her legs around my hips as I thrust into her. The walls of her pussy are like a fucking vice grip, squeezing the blood flow out of me.
Moving my hands from her waist, I let her hold herself up with her legs as I grip the pole behind us. My cock aches to go all the way in, but she’s too tight. She rocks into me, but I still don’t quite fit. Using the pole for leverage, I thrust, and she tightens.
“Deacon!” she wails loudly.
Her thighs grip my sides as if she were trying to squeeze the life from me. Her pussy walls clamp down, holding my cock steady as my chest rises and falls rapidly. I feel her cry out into my chest, my head resting over hers.
“Been a while?” I groan out, gritting my teeth as she breathes, loosening some and allowing my dick another inch inward.
Sliding my cock out, I push back in slowly as I feel her entire body shake and tremble around me while she rolls through her orgasm. On a grunt, I slide all the way in and out again as her knees buckle, and then her legs relax, having no energy left to sustain her.
I keep going, moving my arms to under her armpits, forcing her to wrap her arms around my neck.
“I got nothing left,” she whines against me.
After all the work to finally bottom out inside her, she’s tapping out on me?
I exit her heat on a protest from my cock, still hard, and shake my head, trying to shake off the frustration. Her legs drop haphazardly down as I guide her to the picnic table.
Pulling the condom off, I tie a knot in it before tossing it into the trashcan in the corner. Then I yank my shorts over my sensitive rod and look over my shoulder at Connie who is lying half-naked on the picnic table, staring up, lost in her own thoughts and feelings.
Reaching down, I toss her shorts to her. Then, pushing the branches aside, I peek out around us before I take off back out into the rain.
I don’t look back. I don’t say a word. I leave her half out of it in bliss while I fight my own body to go beyond my limits.
The chaffing of my shorts on my cock brings on a burn, the exact burn I need to push through. The pain hits all of my muscles as my release was not to be found. Step after step, my body cries out for relief until I am finally able to reach down and adjust myself, the one stroke being what I need to make a hell of a mess in my shorts, but at least it takes away the ache.
For now.
Temporary. It’s always temporary.